Steve Brusatte, the American palaeontologist and consultant on several Jurassic Park films, will return to the Jaipur ...

Chinese researchers have identified a new Jurassic bird fossil - a discovery that challenges the conventional notion that the ...

(Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago during the Jurassic Period and possessed surprisingly modern traits, ...

An ancient archaeopteryx fossil is offering new insight into the early evolution of birds from dinosaurs. Dating back around 150 million years, this remarkable discovery is helping scientists ...

Mesozoic birds and their world -- The ancestry of birds and the origin of flight -- The bizarre Mononykus and its kin : an evolutionary experiment -- Archaeopteryx : the earliest bird -- Rahonavis and ...

Chinese researchers have identified a new Jurassic bird fossil - a discovery that challenges the conventional notion that the ...

The fossil, discovered in the Zhenghe Fauna in east China's Fujian Province, belongs to a new species named Yuezhuornis ...

For early birds, evolution wasn't always about becoming better flyers. This conclusion is supported by the recent discovery ...

Modern birds are the living relatives of dinosaurs. Take a look at the features of flightless birds like chickens and ostriches that walk upright on two hind legs, or predators like eagles and hawks ...

Comparing a backyard sparrow to a fearsome velociraptor seems odd, but modern birds are indeed living dinosaurs. Scientists are finding more and more connections between the past physiology of dinos ...

Ancient climate swings may have helped shape the birds you hear outside your window today. A new University of Michigan study suggests that passerines, the vast group that includes songbirds and ...

Scientists uncovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China with unexpectedly modern traits they believe could rewrite the evolutionary history of birds. The recently discovered ...